When Lucinda Marker heard of the suspected death from 'plague' of 28-year-old laboratory technician Darya Shipilova in Russia last week, she was overcome by a harrowing sense of recognition. ‘This ...

News about plague in Russia has shaken the world. The mysterious death of an employee at an anti-plague institute, quarantine ...

Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out and that it was winding down its ...

Having leisurely picked it up one day without expecting to be taken in, Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air arrested me from the first page. “Among my five teammates who reached the top [of Mount Everest], ...

Three New Yorkers died from heat-related illnesses during last week's dangerous heat wave, city officials said Monday. The victims all died in their homes over the weekend as New York experienced its ...